I sold cars for like a month (hated it) and was told by one of the more veteran guys there that they typically only send the better salesman to sell used cars.

Why? Because it's a lot harder. You have to be able to bullshit much better and know a much broader range of cars and features folks are looking for in them. You can't just memorize the current lineup of vehicles for sale.
Also, the margins car lots get on used cars is much better.

Of course, this guy could have been lying to me (he was a car salesman, after all...), but the explanation seems to make sense.

Ignore the naysayers. In this picture you have gravitas. Don't let reddit take that away. The coat is straight out of this season of Mad Men, and I guarantee you that by the end of the year these things will be back. The fact is that the style of coat doesn't lend itself to anything but a party and it never did. That's why car salesmen ran it in the ground. They took a good thing and ruined it. It's not a day coat. Wear it at night to a party here and there, carrying the same confidence you have here, and you'll be thought of as a trendsetter. Congratulations, you've achieved awesome.

to be honest the jacket itself is fine but the buttoning point is too low - it looks ill fitting because of this. if you really liked the jacket you could consider spending the money to raise the button but i doubt you would want to

Aside from MFA sucking your metaphorical dick about being in a nice suit, it's refreshing to see someone straying from the pack. Being in a suit attracts a much different kind of attention than what OP has going here, both good for their own situations. I'm just so sick of everyone putting on the same slim black or gray suits regardless of how sharp it looks.

It's pretty ugly. But it might fit okay, I can't really tell. Most people are saying it might make a nice costume and I'd have to agree with that. If you try to pull it off in general you're gonna have a bad time.

the kind that starts out as your pharmacists but then drugs your husband and tricks you into sending your child off to kid jail and then manipulates you into becoming close before faking his own suicide so that you will marry him

It would work spectacularly if all your other clothing was spot on and the jacket could fit you properly. Don't try to 'match' the jacket, you'll just end up looking as silly as the jacket. Keeping everything else fashionable would enhance the desired effect of the jacket. Remember, you're looking for "I'm awesome", not "I'm a doofus".

This is a jacket that if worn with absolute confidence and style, you'll win life for a day. When not meeting those criteria, you'll look like a dejected auditioner for a new Pee-Wee's Playhouse series.

I live in Princeton, NJ, and see the returning alumni in their class reunion clothing. It is all orange, black and white, and generally hideous. I have become a connoisseur of "So bad it's good," over the course of many years thanks to the returning Princeton alumni, this does not belong in that category. Burn the jacket.

It's bold and I like it. On the right occasions it will be perfect. Preppy early-autumn events, and summer time with a linen shirt underneath perhaps. I'd have a tailor look at it to clean up the fit a bit. Cool jacket.